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Step beyond traditional roles. Our cooperative invites you to lead from within, actively creating new opportunities and defining the strategic direction of our organization. Assume responsibility for initiatives that align with your unique interests, while significantly improving your capacity and shaping the landscape of our field.
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Sara is a researcher with more than 10 years of experience in experimental and computational resarch in healthcare (cancer and neuroscience genomics). She is a natural problem solver, and thrives working collaboratively and including different disciplines and actors into her and other’s research. Sara’s collaborative nature has led her to work as a Community manager for different scientific communities, like The Turing Way (shere she is part of the Community Management Working Group), DSxHE and OLS. Her love for continuous improvement drives her training work, where she is working on bringing open science skills to diverse actors and projects. Sara believes in empowering people to do what they do best, and has a special interest in introducing open leadership and training concepts to academia. Always putting people first.
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Co-Founder / Executive Director
Cass has a PhD in Neuroscience (2014) and 5 years experience building data science communities across a broad range of sectors at the Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford, with a particular focus on embedding open research practices. With both qualitative and quantitative research expertise, she is a skilled analyst, strategist and creative problem solver. She aims for maximum transparency and reproducibility in her work, and prioritises inclusive and joyful participation. She is a contributor to The Turing Way, an inaugural participant of the Wellcome Trust Success on the Board programme, and Co-Founder of Open Research Calendar.
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Co-Founder
Emma is a Principal Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute, leading the Research Community Management team. She applies her open research and community-building expertise to a range of projects in health and biomedical sectors, and The Turing Way. She also leads initiatives focused on professionalizing data science roles and advancing biomedical data science careers. Emma has a PhD in Archaeobotany, a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and a FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellow, dedicated to promoting accessible, inclusive, and open scholarship practices in research.
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Co-Founder / Executive Director
Malvika Sharan is a co-Director of OLS (Open Life Science Ltd.), a not-for-profit dedicated to capacity-building and diversifying research leadership through open science. In her previous role, Malvika established and led The Alan Turing Institute’s first Research Community Management (RCM) team, working alongside Emma and Cass. She led The Turing Way, scaling this community-driven data science initiative from a small group to a global community of thousands and transitioning to a community-governed model in 2025. Malvika has advised initiatives like NASA Open Science, the Society of RSE, and Data Science Without Borders, holds Software Sustainability Institute fellowship, and was named a Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2024).